Number 10 (of 12) crazy quilt block

Finished block number 10 for the crazy quilt journal project (2016) - pushing along!
  
Incorporated 7 stitches from Take a Stitch Tuesday

(upper) #72 basque stitch, #77 pistil stitch; (right) #71 alternating up and down buttonhole stitch; (around words) #76 whipped chain; (left) #69 magic chain; (center) #78 feathered up and down buttonhole; (bottom) #74 buttonholed cable chain

stitches can be found here  in the middle of the page.

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Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. hebrews 10:35

Stitches

Stitches used here are  #69 magic chain,#74 buttonholed cable chain, #78 feathered up & down buttonhole stitch, #72 basque stitch,#77 pistil stitch all from the Take A Stitch Tuesday challenge at pintangle.  

I have learned many stitches from this challenge, and am encouraged by seeing other embroidery work.

here is the block:

I continue working on my Crazy Quilt blocks for the 2016 challenge - better late than never :)

~apologies that the photos are not up to par!~

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you!

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 10:35-36

Rejoice! (also register for CQJP2017)

crazy quilt block 9

continuing with the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2016- 

And registration is now on for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2017.  I encourage you to register; it is a nice project to work on through the year, and at the end, have 12 blocks for a finished project.

remember - Rejoice Always!  Especially at Christmas, Think upon CHRIST 
God sent His Son - God came to US!! Christ has come, paid it all - receive the free gift of salvation and rejoice evermore!  

And pray without ceasing :)

Mouth

continuing to work on crazy quilt journal project for 2016....
(sign ups for 2017 will occur soon - please sign up, it is a lovely project to work on)

my theme for 2016 was a USA patriotic theme, as this is an election year...

four  more blocks to go...then sewing it up all together.

This quote was chosen as I am called to speak up the truth (especially when people do not want to hear it), and to remember that the Lord is the One who strengthens me - who strengthens us :)

Thank you for any comments ~ I always appreciate hearing from people!

many of the stitches I use are part of the Take A Stitch Tuesday challenge on pintangle

Stepping Out

Crazy Quilt Block #7  2016


working and progressing through the crazy quilt blocks

Sewing little stars and beads, working different stitches....

working in red, white, blue with gold accents for the colors of the USA, during 2016 this election year...

And trusting in God alone as I step out to volunteer for the campaign...

Will Not We Fear

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore, will not we fear.....

crazy quilt block part of the 2016 crazy quilt journal project

stitches used can be found via pintangle, and excellent resource

Save LORD

Looped Cretan Stitch, doubled and beaded with pearly #8 thread; part of Take a Stitch Tuesday

crazy quilt blocks continue

crazy quilt blocks continue, this is the third block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2016     firework like flowers on the lower edge are Berry Stitch, in pearl cotton thread; the royal blue and red chains are the Chained Cross Stitch, in Pepper Pot silk thread...

detail around verse is Chained Cross Stitch in pearl thread #8 with beads

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will not we fear...psalm 46:1-2

TAST Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge Stitch 45 Berry Stitch

Berry Stitch in pearl cotton #5 ~ 3 different blues surrounding white...

filling in with more Berry Stitches  :)  learn theBerry Stitch and more at pintangle

And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.  deuteronomy 31:8

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. john 6:36

 trust in Jesus Christ :)

Quilt Block CQJP challenge

crazy quilt block for crazy quilt journal project 2016  :)  see more beautiful blocks here 

great resource for stitches and information at pintangle

labour

I have completed the cross stitch and have been working on the chart....

here is a screen shot of the chart;  I stitched more than half from my chart, then free handed the rest.  Copying what I stitched into the chart has been a labour.


Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. John 6:27

your hope is?

cross stitch design

Work In Progress Wednesday, Butterfly Cross Stitch

Picking up from where I left off two+ years ago!  and continuing to finish this cross stitch design, finishing two butterflies for this WIPW...

I designed it based on an antique filet pattern, and am stitching it in overdyed floss on white Jobelan fabric - the center will have some verses... :)

Garden theme Textile Art panel for Exchange

The finished "Garden" theme textile panel for the exchange sponsored by Emma. Title is "Light in the Garden".  Thank you for looking!

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
2 corinthians 4:6

Working In Progress Wednesday Quilt & Colmar Block Embroidery

Work is continuing on the small panel for the exchange sponsored by Emma; this is an up close photo of the newly sewn diamonds without tails ...a big thank you to Karen H  of faeries and fires BLOG for...

for her helpful tutorials, this one helped me with the diamonds

and embroidery embellishment on Colmar Block 2 continues

:) thank you for visiting!

there really is peace ~

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.  john 16:33  

WIPW, work in progress wednesday, a beginning...quilt block work

Hooray! My first Work in Progress Wednesday!!  I have been a follower (albeit from a distance) of Work in Progress Wednesdays since I first started reading on Sharon's pintangle blog - I read back to see when it began..could it have been 2009?  I have been reading her blog even before that, using it as a helpful stitch reference - anyway...

before shot of leaf and center flower (finishing up the first block of Quiltmania's mystery quilt block 2015)   here is the after shot, showing the work in  progress completed so far

these leaves have the addition of rust+blue dmc floss embellishments, and

the center flower has the addition of blue, bright pink/red straight stitches and bright pink/red french knots.  ( my photo taking  is a whole work in progress unto itself :P  )

and have added filler stitches in as well

special thanks to Queenie, whose weekly postings of WIPW have inspired me these past years, so that I have finally joined along :D  thank you!!  
 (3/19 I found this WIPW link-up: http://www.estheraliu.blogspot.com  
via Karen's blog   fairies and fibres  )

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1 John 5:11

Progress - of quilt block & more

Quiltmania/Colmar, quilt block 1 nearly finished

I have been working on the first quilt block via Quiltmania's youtube videos (colmar mystery quilt),
and have been learning and practicing appliqué, trapunto, embroidery embellishment and more..

some flower bud embellishment

and it all begun ( as projects do)  very humbly, as I pieced together fabrics...determined to use fabric which I already had on hand....

not knowing how it would look - or whether I had chosen properly...

but by just starting, and stepping out, and learning,  this  has become

this :)   life is like that, no? :)   

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  
philippians 3:12-14